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Flash Flood Warning 116, NWS Little Rock, AR

July 5, 20085 counties in Arkansas

NWS Little Rock, AR issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2008, 6:41 PM CDT for 5 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 5, 2008, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2008, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Little Rock, AR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Johnson County, AR, Newton County, AR, Pope County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Van Buren County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 153 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 142 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 5, 5:43 PM CDT, 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 5:43 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 12:30 PM CDT, 6 hours 11 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1230 PM CDT SAT JUL 5 2008

ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-061000-
ARKANSAS-BAXTER-BOONE-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND-
CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING-
INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-LONOKE-
MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE-
PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-
WHITE-WOODRUFF-YELL-
1230 PM CDT SAT JUL 5 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON IN
THE NORTHEAST HALF OF THE STATE. THIS INCLUDES AREAS NORTH OF A LINE
FROM WALDRON TO DUMAS. ISOLATED STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS POSSIBLE. HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO A
CONCERN...AS MOISTURE AMOUNTS ARE HIGH...AND THE STORMS WILL HAVE
VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT. THE STORMS WILL BEGIN TO DISSIPATE AFTER
SUNSET.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON SUNDAY
AND MONDAY...IN A TYPICAL SUMMERTIME PATTERN. THE NEXT SIGNIFICANT
RAINFALL WILL MOVE IN FOR THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...AS ANOTHER COLD
FRONT APPROACHES THE REGION AND THEN STALLS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

&&

VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON
CENTRAL ARKANSAS.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 5, 5:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 5, 5:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 5:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 5, 5:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 5, 5:59 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 6:34 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Pulaski, Saline	26 min
Jul 5, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Jefferson, Lonoke	44 min
Jul 5, 3:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Saline	118 min
Jul 5, 3:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Garland, Montgomery, Scott, Yell	2 hr
Jul 5, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Jefferson, Lincoln, Lonoke, Monroe and 1 more	67 min
Jul 5, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Yell	51 min
Jul 5, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas, Desha, Lincoln, Monroe	50 min
Jul 5, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Pope, Yell	26 min
Jul 5, 5:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk, Scott, Yell	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2008 Every flash flood warning in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.